Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Thinking Historically About Sound and Sense 1
4. Part I. Affect and the Politics of Listening
5. Chapter 1: Distracted Listening: On Not Making Sound Choices in the 1930s 15
6. Chapter 2: ‘‘Her Voice a Bullet’’ Imaginary Propaganda and the Legendary Broadcasters of World War II 47
7. Chapter 3: ‘‘Savage Dissonance’’ Gender, Voice, and Women’s Radio Speech in Argentina, 1930–1945 69
8. Part II. Sonic Objects
9. Chapter 4: Collectors, Bootleggers, and the Value of Jazz, 1930–1952 95
10. Chapter 5: High-Fidelity Sound as Spectacle and Sublime, 1950–1961 115
11. Part III. Hearing Order
12. Chapter 6: Occupied Listeners: The Legacies of Interwar Radio for France During World War II 141
13. Chapter 7: An Audible Sense of Order: Race, Fear, and CB Radio on Los Angeles Freeways in the 1970s 159
14. Part IV. Sound Commerce
15. Chapter 8: ‘‘The People’s Orchestra’’ Jukeboxes as the Measure of Popular Musical Taste in the 1930s and 1940s 181
16. Chapter 9: Sounds Local: The Competition for Space and Place in Early U.S. Radio 199
17. Chapter 10: The Sound of Print: Newspapers and the Public Promotion of Early Radio Broadcasting in the United States 221
18. Notes 243
19. Contributors 299
20. Index 301
21. Acknowledgments 311